Sentences with phrase «society at large about»

The greatest value of all these efforts is in producing global and coherent data synthesis products of known quality, and in informing the society at large about local, regional and global patterns in various water properties and hence ecosystem dynamics.

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Thurman says that as people in business, «we should take heart because, although a lot of people who consider themselves progressive and spiritual feel like business is something very lowly, that it's about just making money, the vocation of business can be extraordinarily honorable and has the ability to make a long - lasting positive impact on our society and world at large.»

David, to what degree do you think this is an issue for the church only and to what degree do you think it is symptomatic of society at large of which the church is part of in keeping with what you say about politics wherever people gather or dwell together?

To be the church means to think not only about individuals and their personal crises, but also the way in which these crises affect families and communities, as well as how they may represent broader struggles in the society at large.

After some playful banter with senior pastor Joe Champion - who asked the former Florida Gator to don a football helmet from his alma mater, Louisiana State University - Tebow began answering questions about his faith and how his openness about it has become a frequently dissected topic in sports and society at large.

Singling out scandals limited to large lawsuits at the expense of staying quiet about the much larger problem of this disgusting sickness within our society is downright harmful.

Large questions were at stake — questions about the meaning of life, the meaning of history, of society, of justice, of human flourishing.

Nevertheless, there is now a growing willingness - as long as it is made clear that this is no excuse for the existence of this appalling crime within an organisation which ought to be an example to society at large rather than a reflection of it - to think seriously about what that implies for our relationship to a society which, because of our bishops» gross mishandling of the problem, we now have small hope of influencing in this matter.

A church that is the largest voluntary association in the country; a church whose universal pastor has, over the past decade, definitively answered Stalin's cynical query about the pope's divisions; a church that is, demographically, at its strongest historical point of leverage in American society — this is a church that would seem well positioned to seize what Richard John Neuhaus and others have seen as a possible «Catholic moment» in American history, pro Deo et patria.

The man pretty clearly believes deeply about trying to make improvements to society at large, whether people want to agree with his methods or not.

Three of the main benefits of taking a quality childbirth education class are learning about all of your birth options, forming a good working knowledge of the birth process, and reducing fears of childbirth perpetuated by our society at large.

Whether it's celebrity gossip or the latest Lana Del Ray album or political news, try to keep in touch with your interests so you have something to talk about with your friends, and you feel like a part of society at large.

As for Aitken, I don't think he really has much to say about prison reform apart from the obvious (i.e. prison doesn't work at present and we must rethink rehabilitation not only for the sake of prisoners but for society at large).

One thing I like about the book is that Nicco's no techno - utopian: he's quite aware that disruption doesn't always end well, and he's as likely to explore the negative implications of «the end of big» for society at large as the positive.

One of the charges read, «That you, Jules Suinner, on or about the 13th day of July 2015, in Abuja, within the jurisdiction of this honourable court, with intent to obtain money under false pretences, conspired with ICT Aid Foundation Cooperative Society (still at large) and others (still at large) to fraudulently impersonate officials of Greenview Development Nigeria Limited.»

The studies were presented at Neuroscience 2017, the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience and the world's largest source of emerging news about brain science and health.

At the Society for Neuroscience meeting in Chicago last October, Michael Häusser of University College London reported on an optogenetics experiment that showed how 100 neurons could trigger a memory stored in a much larger ensemble of about 100,000 neurons, suggesting how the technique may be used to understand memory formation.

Today's studies, presented at Neuroscience 2013, the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience and the world's largest source of emerging news about brain science and health, provide new insights into how experience might produce long - term brain changes in behaviors like drug addiction and memory formation.

Officials at AAAS, the world's largest general science society, said they are «encouraged and optimistic» about legislation that would help prohibit the misuse of genetic information, if it is approved by the U.S. Senate on Tuesday, 14 October.

That oddly textured pebble, scientists report at the Society for Vertebrate Paleontology meeting, is actually an endocast — an impression preserved in the rock — that represents the first known evidence of fossilized brain tissue of a dinosaur (likely a close relative of Iguanodon, a large, herbivorous type of dinosaur that lived about 133 million years ago).

Instead they become moderately large and stayed that way until about 4.5 million years ago, Slater, Pyenson, and Jeremy Goldbogen at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, report today in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B.

So if you're trying to think about how technology can be beneficial for society at large, it's interesting to think about what we need to do to change the current situation.

The research was presented at Neuroscience 2008, the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience and the world's largest source of emerging news about brain science and health.

We all know that society at large looks at herpes with fear and suspicion, most of which is due to ignorance about the disease.

From perspectives of those that study journalism, sociology, and civics, and beyond, attend a roundtable discussion about how to better instill the importance of fact and credible resources to young students, and society at large.

Curious about the ways in which social structures affect classroom and pedagogical structures and how those in turn affect individuals and society at large, Brohinsky enrolled in the Specialized Studies Program (SSP), quickly making an impression on his cohort.

One of the most vexing problems for high schools — and society at large — is what to do about students who have repeatedly failed a grade and are on the verge of dropping out.

This can be done, but paradoxically only if there are enough interludes in the onslaught of change for deep, mindful reflection about the larger dynamics at work in our societies and how they impact the students in our schools (Shirley & MacDonald, 2016).

Mosley writes with great power here about themes that have permeated his work: institutional racism, political corruption, and the ways that both of these issues affect not only society at large but also the inner lives of individual men and women.

The triumphs and tribulations of Frazier, her mother and grandmother, speak volumes about society at - large and similar fates of Americans across the country enduring hardships wrought by the transformation of the U.S. economy.

If such perception - events are more about ideas and concepts — our own, or those we glean through interactions with different communities or society at large — to what extent would notions such as popular visual tropes, specific cultural references, or language itself tend to be associated with physical sensations?

The project raised questions about artistic freedom, censorship, and the relationship between experimental art and society at large.

People tend to think of anthropology as being a very distinct practice from art or art history, but they are extraordinarily close: artists, curators, and anthropologists are all looking at cultural phenomena and particularly at objects and their use, and what that says about society at large.

How about unique and meaningful contributions to a group, a firm, an industry, or a society at large?

DOUGLAS CRIMP: You talked to me about the «Queer Cinema Before Stonewall» series well before your recent appointment as programmer at large for the Film Society of

I am not yet in my 40's but was raised in a very alternative community of people in nyc in the 70's and 80's... amidst the depression of the city at that time, there were tons of free - thinking individuals, groups and companies leading the way presenting biofuel - concepts and ideas, or promoting industries based on recycling things rather than being a disposable society... there have always been large numbers of people in the pro-environment movement country and world - wide that cried out about how alternative thinking would lead to newer, more positive and less harmfully - impacting industries and tried to introduce inventions that could have spurred new economies... Had the auto industry not blocked things, we could have had more energy efficient cars decades ago... but they did not want the «expense» of helping foster this new industry... it is so damn sad it took a war to make people «wake up» about alternative fuels and how exciting the options are.

We are just now, as a larger society, starting to seriously look at issues that he has been talking about for twenty years, but there is still a long way to go.

This week at the Chronicle of Higher Education, science writer Paul Voosen takes a look at debates within the history of science field about its continued relevance to the scientific community and society at large.

-- that the problems of society at large can be solved by channelling huge amounts of money not through the decision making processes of the individual whose problems you are trying to solve, but through a vast bureaucracy controlled by a de facto elite who are not necessarily acting in anyone's interests but their own, don't necessarily listen to the real problems of the individual, and even if they do, don't understand enough about the actual situation to make any difference at all?

«Here is the largest land mammal of the polar zones, but we hardly know anything about musk oxen,» said Joel Berger, a wildlife biologist at Colorado State University and a senior scientist at the Wildlife Conservation Society.

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It is a trend that we have been seeing in society at large, a growing concern about personal health and well - being.

Perhaps because that state is the home of a large number of devout members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, a.k.a. Mormons, and churches of all stripes care about such things as marriage — and sometimes hold beliefs about them that are at odds with those of civil society.

If an issue can not be resolved without recourse to generalized and unverifiable opinions about society at large, then it should be returned to the legislative branch, which is better equipped institutionally to handle the matter.

In the context of «social and legislative facts» — meaning facts about society at large — opinion evidence becomes all the more menacing, because it is all but impossible to cross-examine the expert against a clear factual record.

As a result the trial record in this proceeding is incomplete and unbalanced on crucial issues including: (1) the widespread suicidal ideation initially experienced by persons with disabilities responding to their disabilities; [8](2) relevant exploitation and abuse to which people with disabilities and the elderly are subjected; [9](3) prejudice faced by persons with disabilities in society at large and in the medical community; [10](4) the impact the lack of palliative care and support services has on suicidal ideation; [11](5) the impaired agency of persons with disabilities in dependent circumstances; [12](6) evidence of clinicians about the impact resulting from a state sanctioned paradigm shift legalizing assisted suicide and euthanasia («AS / E»); [13] and (7) the impact on the judgment of doctors of functioning in an environment of increasing health costs and budget constraints.

Part 1 of the report looks at gender sensitivity in the parliamentary workplace (how procedures, policies, budgets etc. bear on the needs of men and women working within parliaments), Part 2 at how parliamentarians can work to bring about greater gender sensitivity in the society at large.

It's clear that the Daku Group is about more than returns: «Whilst we are very clear of our investment reward in developments, I strongly believe in creating developments that have an impact on society at large.